Word stops responding

[Guest]

I am editing / revising a 50 page document in Word 2003, on Windows XP. There
is an extranious blank table on about page 30 that I wish to get rid of.
However whenever the cursor touches the page that contains the table, the
program stops responding. I have edited the pages up to that one, and pages
following that one, however the garbage is still in the middle, and I would
like to remove it.
I cannot highlight it and then delete it, nor can I back space through it,
as any time I go near it the message "program not responding " appears at the
top of the window. Help to solve this would be appreciated.

 

[CyberTaz]

Have you tried setting the Select Browse Objects feature (bottom of the
Vertical Scroll Bar) to Browse by Table, then using Table>Select>Table? Or
you may be able to place the insertion point in the para above/below the
rogue table, then use Shift+Control+Down/Up Arrow to select it. That may
permit deleting it without incident.

If that doesn't help I suspect you have a seriously corrupt table. Should it
be necessary you'll find some tips here:

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/corruptdoc.htm

and I'm sure there may be some other suggestions to come your way.